Government Gazette on-line
SABINET, a subscription
service, has a searchable version of the
Government Gazette in full text since
1994.
Law and legal Free Sites Available on
the Internet:
Polity:
Policy and Law Online News
This is a privately run site, providing
a wealth of government information. The
site includes the full text of
legislation: Bills since 1995, and Acts
since 1993, and also provides the full
text of: White Papers; Commission
reports; Discussion documents; Green
papers; Notices and Regulations; Policy
documents; Reports; and Speeches.
The official website of the
Parliament of South Africa
provides full text of acts passed from
1993 onwards, and the full text of bills
since 1998. The site also provides
background information on Members of
Parliament and the legislative process;
selected Parliamentary papers,
Parliamentary Committee reports and
Hansard reports. Also see the
National Council of Provinces
webpage.
The official website of the
South African Government
provides full text of acts passed since
1993, and the full text of bills since
1996. The full text of many regulations
is also reproduced here. The site
provides the full text of many speeches
and policy and information documents,
including white papers and green
papers. It also provides useful
background information on various
aspects of the South African
governmental structure and process, as
well as links to the various Government
Departments and the Provincial
Governments.
The
Parliamentary Monitoring Group
site tracks the activities of Parliament
and the Parliamentary Select Committees,
and follows the progress of discussion
papers, white papers, and bills (i.e. it
provides background information on the
legislative process)
There are links to the various
provincial governments from
the South African Government site. Many
of the provincial governments publish
provincial legislation and official
policy documents online. See, for
example,
Gauteng, the
Western Cape,
KwaZulu-Natal, the
Eastern Cape, and
Mpumalanga.
Full text of the
Constitution of the Republic of South
Africa Act 108 of 1996 is
available at <http://www.gov.za/constitution/1996/96cons.htm>.
The
Southern African Legal Information
Institute provides the full
text of selected acts. The
World Legal Information Institute
provides links to some of the sites
mentioned above, as well links to a few
other South African acts. Search under
South Africa in the
Worldl catalogue.
Both
LexisNexis Butterworths and
Juta
offer free 'legislation watch' services,
with weekly updates on new statutes and
regulations at both national and
provincial level. See the publishers'
websites for more information.
